Registering apparatus.



L. E FLAVELL & C. S. PRIEST.

REGISTERING APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED DEC-27.19IL

1,256,459. Patented Feb. 12,1918.

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LEO EDWARD ELAVELL AND CLARENCE SIDNEY PRIEST, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND.

REGISTERING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1918.

Application filed December 27, 1917. Serial 110.209.17 1.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LEO EDWARD FLAVELL and CLARENCE SIDNEY PRIEST, subjects of the King of Great Britain, residing at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Registering Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to registering apparatus for recordin the total of numbers, values, weights or ot er particulars of articles sold or dealt with, or transactions efl'ect ed, or for recording mileages in connection with railway goods traffic, and for similar purposes.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple but eflicient registering apparatus adapted to give a record of the sales, transactions or the like in connection with any one kind of article or item, it being intended to use a separate apparatus for each different kind of article or item to be dealt with.

According to the invention the apparatus comprises a magazine or carrier holding a series of checks bearing consecutive numbers. values, or other particulars, means for successively transferring the checks into a position for taking the readings thereof, and means for releasing each check from such position on the succeeding operation of the apparatus. Preferably the operation is continuous, the checks being again passed to the magazine or carrier on being released from the inspection or indicating position.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a sectional elevation of the improved registering apparatus, showing a check in the act of being transported from the feeding end to the receiving end of the magazine.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line :12, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section showing the slide for transporting the checks in plan.

Fig. 4 is a plan.

Fig. 5 is a plan of one of the checks, upon a larger scale.

The apparatus comprises a magazine or holder 1 carrying a number of checks 2 having the necessary information stamped or otherwise marked upon them. The magazine 1 consists of a continuous metal plate or ring-like frame of substantially circular form having a central opening to whose edge is secured a wire 3 thus producing the section shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The checks 2 are of the shape shown in Fig. 5, each having a slot 4 with enlarged inner end, of the same shape as the section of the magazine. The checks 2 are threaded consecutively upon the magazine or carrier 1, the wire 3 engaging with the enlarged end of the slot 4 and so preventing removal of the checks. The bottom checks of the pile normally fall into a recess 5 in a plate 6 attached to the top of a transport-slide guide member 7 to which the magazine 1 is secured by pins 8. The checks rest upon a transporting slide 9 supported and guided within a groove in the top face of the member 7 and moving immediately beneath the plate 6. The slide 9 is forked or bifurcated at 10 in order to clear the magazine, (as is likewise the guide member 7) and at its outer end it is connected by a link 11 to a double-armed lever 12 carrying a finger-piece or head 13 adapted to be depressed when an item is to be registered; the slide 9 being maintained in the position shown by means of a spring 14.

On the lever 12 being operated the slide 9 is withdrawn until a recess or depression 15 in the top face of its inner end comes beneath the pile of checks, when the bottom check drops into it. The lever 12 being released, the spring 14 returns the slide 9 toward the left, thereby transporting the said bottom check into the position indicated at 2 (Fig. 1), the marking on the upper face appearing beneath an aperture 16 in a detachable end plate 21, so that the reading of the last check transported can always be taken at this aperture. In moving to the position 2 the check wipes over the beveled end of a spring plunger 17 sliding within a tubular guide 18 attached to the lower part of the wire edging 3 of the magazine; and on the lever 12 being again operated and the slide 9 withdrawn, the check at 2 will be held by the said plunger 17 until the slide 9 has moved from beneath it, when it will fall on to the tubular guide 18 at the lower part of the magazine or carrier 1 as indicated at 2 On the slide 9 again moving inward under the influence of the spring 14 in order I leased. The lower end of the tubular plungcr-guide 18, being of larger diameter than the wire '3, holds the checks in position when the elevating arm 19 is Withdrawn. lhe action is thus continuous, the checks passing around the magazine in succession.

-Having fully described our invention, What we desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is il. A' registering apparatus comprising a substantially ring-like magazine or carrier for holding a series of checks and having a feeding end and a receiving end located below and out of alinement with the feeding end, means for successively transferring the checks from the feeding end of the magazine into a position intermediate said feeding end and the receiving end for taking the readings thereof, means for releasing each check from such position on the next operation of the apparatus, and means whereby the check, on being released, is passed to the receiving end of the magazine.

2. A registering apparatus comprising a substantially continuous magazine or carrier for a series of checks, having a feeding end and a receiving end out of alinement, a transporting slide Working under the feeding end of said magazine or carrier and adapted to transport successive checks to a position intermediate the feeding and receiving ends in which the readings can be taken, means whereby the transported check is released on the next operation of the apparatus and passed to the receiving end of the magazine or carrier and an elevating slide connected to the transporting slide for movement therewith and engageable with the check at the receiving end of the magazine or carrier to'etfcct a movement of said check along the magazine or carrier.

3. A registering apparatus comprising a magazine or carrier for a series of checks consisting of a substantially ring-like frame which acts as a guide to the cheeks and has a feeding end and a receiving end out of alinement, means for successively transferring the checks from the magazine into a position over the receiving end, for taking the readings, means for releasing each check from such position on the next operation of the apparatus and means operable in conjunction vvith said transferring means and engageable with the check at the receiving end of the magazine or carrier to effect a movement of said check along the magazine or carrier.

i. A registering apparatus comprising a series of slotted checks, a magazine or carrier for said series of checks, consisting of a substantially ring-like frame of a section the same shape as the slots in the checks and such as to prevent the removal of the latter while passing around the magazine, a feeding end and a receiving end to said magazine situated out of alinement, means for successively transferring the checks from the magazine into a position for taking the readings thereof, and means for releasing each check from such position on the next operation of the apparatus and passing same to the receiving end of the magazine.

5. A registering apparatus comprising a substantially ring-like frame constituting a check magazine having a peripheral part of greater thickness than the remainder of the frame, slotted checks on the frame having open slots terminating in enlarged inner ends engaged with the thicker peripheral part of the tame, a feeding end and a receiving end of the magazine out of alinement, means for transporting the checks from the receiving end of the magazine into a position for taking the readings thereof, means for releasing each check from such position on the next operation of the apparatus, and means whereby the check, on being'released, is passed to the receiving end of the magazine.

(5. A registering apparatus comprising a continuous magazine or carrier for a series of checks having a feeding end out of alinement with a receiving end, a transporting slide having a recess in its top face adapted to be brought beneath and to receive the bottom check at the feeding end of the magazine, means for operating the slide said slide being adapted to take the said check into a position over the receiving end of the magazine Where the reading can be taken, and means for retaining said check while the slide is Withdrawn so that the check will then pass to the said receiving end of the magazine.

7. A registering apparatus comprising a magazine or carrier for a series of checks having a feeding end out of alinement with a receiving end, a transporting slide having a recess in its top face adapted to be brought beneath and to receive the bottom check at the feeding end of the magazine, means for operating the transporting slide, said slide being adapted to take the said check into a position over the receiving end of the magazine Where the reading can be taken,means for retaining said check while the slide is Withdrawn so that the check will then pass to the said receiving end of the magazine, and an elevating slide connected to the transporting slide and adapted to engage with the checks in order to pass them around the magazine.

8. A registering apparatus comprising a magazine or carrier for a series of checks having a feeding end out of alinement with a receiving end, a transporting slide having a recess in its top face adapted to be brought beneath and to receive the bottom check at the feeding end of the magazine, means for operating the transporting slide said slide being adapted to take the said check into a position over the receiving end of the magazine Where the reading can be taken, means for retaining said check While the slide is Withdrawn so that the check Will then pass to the said receiving end of the magazine, an elevating slide connected to the transporting slide and adapted to engage With the checks in order to ass them around the magazine, and means f dr preventing the return of the checks when the elevating slide is Withdrawn.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

LEO EDWARD FLAVELL.

CLARENCE SIDNEY PRIEST. Witnesses:

H. N. MERRETT,

H. O. PRATT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of ratentl,

Washington, D. 0. 

